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• Panel discussion on Öcalan’s ‘Democratic Confederalism’ model in Rome 

  A panel discussion titled 'A solution for peace in the Middle East: Democratic Confederalism' was jointly organized by the Kurdistan Information Bureau UIKI-Onlus, Rete Kurdistan, Dinamo Press, Un Punto Per and Ararat Kurdish Cultural Association.
• KON-MED has clear stance on German elections 

  Co-chair of KON-MED, Kerem Gök, said that in the upcoming elections in Germany, tomorrow, Sunday, they will support candidates who do not marginalize the Kurdish community, and advocate for a resolution to the Kurdish question.
• Düşünmez: We will send the trustees back to where they came from 

  DEM Party MP Onur Düşünmez condemned the appointment of trustees.
• Eleven people sent to prison in investigation against HDK 

  Eleven people have been remanded in custody as part of the investigation launched by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office against HDK.
• Kenanoğlu: Political process and repression cannot coexist 

  The HDK co-chair, Ali Kenanoğlu, said that the crackdown on the organization aims to suppress the opposition, and added that the process can move forward only if the repression stops.
• Up to 15 years in prison sought for the dismissed mayor of Esenyurt 

  Ahmet Özer, Esenyurt district mayor dismissed and imprisoned for alleged links to the PKK, faces up to 15 years in prison.
• US organizations write to the Secretary of State, calling for action against crimes against Kurds 

  Five US human rights and peace organizations in New York sent a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on him to end the crimes of the Turkish state against the Kurdish people.
• Entry and exit from Kağızman banned after sentencing of co-mayor Mehmet Alkan 

  The co-mayor of Kağızman, Mehmet Alkan, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on terrorism charges. While the politician sees the decision as a preparation for the appointment of a trustee, the district was cut off from the outside world.
• The Roadmap to Negotiations now available online 

  The Roadmap to Negotiations is a crucial document to understand the historical step taken by Abdullah Öcalan in the struggle for peace and for humanity, to understand the way out of the darkness that is being opened up.
• Alkan: Prison sentence issued to justify trustee appointment  

  Kağızman co-mayor Mehmet Alkan condemned his sentence as a move to justify the appointment of a government trustee, calling it an act of usurpation.
• DEM Party Assembly Member Senem Eriş taken into custody 

  DEM Party Assembly member and Young Women's Coordination member Senem Eriş was taken into custody.
• Open letter to the Austrian government calls for action to end Turkish attacks on North-East Syria 

  The Council of Kurdish Society in Austria and its student association, together with other organizations, publicly called on the Austrian federal government to work for an end to the Turkish attacks on North-East Syria.
• Sırrı Süreyya Önder: We will convey the results of meetings in South Kurdistan to Mr. Öcalan 

  Sırrı Süreyya Önder from the DEM Party’s Imrali Delegation spoke about the visit to South Kurdistan.
• Call from Italy to President Bettel about Öcalan: Take responsibility! 

  56 Italian figures and 26 institutions wrote to President Bettel, asking him to "take concrete legal, diplomatic and political steps for the release of Mr. Öcalan as a political solution to the Kurdish issue is the duty of the Committee of Ministers."
• Municipality of Florence grants 'Honorary Citizenship' to Pakshan Azizi sentenced to death in Iran 

  Kurdish journalist and activist Pakshan Azizi was sentenced to death by the Tehran Revolutionary Court on July 23, 2024. On January 8, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld the verdict.
• Congress Co-Rapporteurs: Dismissal of elected mayors undermines the very nature of democracy 

  Co-Rapporteurs of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe on local democracy in Turkey call on the Turkish authorities to stop replacing democratically elected opposition party mayors with trustees.
• Meral Danış Beştaş: We will resist repression and win together 

  Meral Danış Beştaş, co-spokesperson of the HDK, stated that they would resist the government's efforts to divide the opposition and emphasized that journalists and artists cannot be criminalized.
• Forty people remanded in custody in Van 

  Following the appointment of a trustee to Van Metropolitan Municipality, 18 more people, including 5 children, were taken into custody. The total of people remanded in custody has reached 40.
• DEM Party: Government is threatening HDK and its components with baseless accusations, imprisonment 

  "The AKP government now considers freedom of organization as a "terrorist activity," leading to the criminalization of every opposition initiative through the judiciary," said the DEM Party, protesting the attacks against the opposition.
• Peoples’ Platform Europe, Vienna conference: Reclaim the Initiative! 

  The final declaration published by the European People's Platform Conference said that the world is on the verge of a historic change and called on people to "reclaim the initiative".
• Abbas: 1,200 Iraqi families have returned from Hol Camp  

  The Ministry of Migration and Displacement has announced that a total of 1,200 Iraqi families have returned from Hol Camp so far.
• Police take 52 members of opposition parties into custody 

  In the house raids carried out in Istanbul, 52 people, including EMEP, SYKP, HDK, ESP, DBP, Green Left Party members and journalists, were taken into custody.
• KCDK-E: Tens of thousands declared their commitment to the process initiated by Öcalan 

  KCDK-E stated that the Great Strasbourg rally once again declared the fact that the Kurdish people are determined to walk on the path drawn by Leader Abdullah Öcalan and thanked the tens of thousands who attended the demonstration.
• Ayşegül Doğan: Öcalan’s letter has reached Qandil, Europe and the Autonomous Administration 

  DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan confirmed that Öcalan had sent a letter to Qandil, Europe and North-East Syria.
• Co-mayor of Tatvan taken into custody 

  The mayor of Tatvan is accused of "insulting Erdoğan".